Sentence examples for and ability to please from inspiring English sources

Indeed, after a sojourn in banking, he was brought back after Mr Brown inherited the premiership.Mr Heywood's analytical rigour, quiet efficiency and ability to please masters of different political stripes are all typical civil-service traits.

It encourages men to view women as commodities, and to judge and value women solely for their looks, sexuality and ability to please.

Her own grace and graciousness and her ability to please her fellow-creatures she retained to the end.

He also emphasized his admiration for Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936), an eccentric Spanish playwright with a penchant for the grotesque and an ability to please the theatergoing public.

Loyalty to the party, a lack of controversy and the ability to please all factions are the main qualities needed to rise inside today's communist party, according to Nicholas Becquelin of Human Rights Watch.

The screenplay showcased Ravetch and Frank's ability to please Hollywood by adding an element of sexual tension, between Newman and Diane Cilento, without consummating it.

But the cumulative heft of Nolan's cinematic achievement is evident throughout The Dark Knight Trilogy (2012, Warner, 12) box set, in which the disparately ambitious strands of the series are impressively brought together as proof of the director's uncanny ability to please and challenge the crowd simultaneously.

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That being said, it also follows a formula -- one that's been employed by ballad writers in the 1970s and beyond, demonstrating a keen ability to please.

"I admire their intensity, their ability to please others and to make a good living at the same time.

By comparison, Western Union's ability to please both customers and shareholders is already clear.